  Mama_jackson Member Username: Mama_jackson Post Number: 360 Registered: 06-2006 |
What about Robin Williams? I think he was a small child or even baby, but hey. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1444 Registered: 04-2005 |
Robin Williams lived in Bloomfield and attended Country Day. Ed McMahon was also from Detroit. (Message edited by jcole on June 04, 2008) | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1445 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jgavrile, How did you save them? I downloaded the Picasa Album, and I was able to blow them up pretty large. If you're trying to just right click and save, I don't think you'll have very good luck. | ||
Jgavrile Member Username: Jgavrile Post Number: 116 Registered: 09-2005 |
jcole, after I download the Picasa Album, how do I view them?? Do I have to save them to Picasa? or do I go into hornwrecker's album somehow.? | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1446 Registered: 04-2005 |
Do you have picasa on your PC? If not, you will have to download it before you can save his album. It's free and works really well. After you download and install Picasa, reboot. It won't tell you to, but you need to. Then, go back to the link and you will see a link 'Download Album' Picasa will create a folder for the files. (Message edited by jcole on June 04, 2008) | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1447 Registered: 04-2005 |
After you download, go to your My Pictures folder and you will see a folder called Downloaded Albums. The maps will be in there. When you double click on one of them, it will open in your default photo editting software. You should then be able to enlarge it. Do you know what you use for photos on your PC? | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 2023 Registered: 04-2005 |
You can use this map in anyway you want. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1449 Registered: 04-2005 |
Horn, Thank you. | ||
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn Post Number: 278 Registered: 02-2005 |
If you’re interested in location... Ty Cobb’s house on Williams is approximately where the DeRoy auditorium is today, on Wayne State’s campus. | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 162 Registered: 10-2007 |
I remember hanging out with a really pretty young woman in the early 90s who lived in Ty Cobb's house on Commonwealth (or Avery). I was over there once, it was south of Lysander, but not exactly sure where. Can't for the life of me remember her name either. | ||
Kennyd Member Username: Kennyd Post Number: 15 Registered: 04-2008 |
Oh yeahh... that map is great! It even has the downtown bldgs labelled as to what they were. Thanks Hornwrecker. | ||
Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors Post Number: 920 Registered: 11-2005 |
thats what I thought and my dad would take me there not 20 years ago, just couldn remember if it was commonwealth, avery or in Briggs/ North corktown. | ||
Gary Member Username: Gary Post Number: 279 Registered: 02-2004 |
The Marvin Gaye house on Outer Drive was previously owned by Marvin's brother-in-law, Berry Gordy. | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 1352 Registered: 08-2007 |
This is from a previous thread, seems a guy just recently self published a book about the homes of famous Detroiters. You can get you copy through Detroit Blight Busters. ---- http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20080530/O PINION03/805300403 quote: Like many people who immerse themselves in historical archives and Internet searches, the author who calls himself T. Burton turned to genealogy after a personal loss. He started researching his Motor City roots, "and then I thought, 'Gee, I wonder where this person and that person lived.' " quote: it was Burton who found the house where Hoffa lived when he was 14, the year he quit school to become a warehouseman for Kroger. It was Burton who found UAW President Walter Reuther's house on West Philadelphia Street, with the snout of a sedan peeking from the top of the driveway -- a roomy, American-nameplate Chrysler 300. The book includes more than 70 homes, from Archer, Dennis (on Lincolnshire in Palmer Woods) to Wonder, Stevie (on Greenlawn, south of Seven Mile). quote: Burton ordered 3,000 copies of "Home in Detroit" and is selling them through George's organization at www.blightbusters.org or (313) 255-4355. The price is $24.99. He's an amateur, and it shows. Spelling errors pop up in awkward places, like the names of Elijah Muhammad and actor David Alan Grier. But the photos are crisp and the sincerity is clear. Sounds like an interesting book that MikeM, Jjaba and the Rock need to add to their collections. | ||
Mackcreative Member Username: Mackcreative Post Number: 238 Registered: 08-2006 |
Ty Cobb lived on Commonwealth, in a duplex on the West side of the street between Alexandrine and Willis. We walked our visiting baseball fanatics Dads past there once and struck up a conversation with the friendly owner, who then invited us in for a tour and to see her collection of memorabilia. | ||
Stromberg2 Member Username: Stromberg2 Post Number: 85 Registered: 10-2006 |
Cobb also had a house on Atkinson in Boston-Edison, a block or so west of Woodward. Stromberg2 | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6561 Registered: 11-2003 |
Lowell Boileau lived on Colorado, east of Woodward in Highland Park. He's famous too. jjaba. | ||
Gibran Member Username: Gibran Post Number: 2831 Registered: 02-2007 |
hey I thought Wally Cox graduated from Denby... | ||
Jgavrile Member Username: Jgavrile Post Number: 117 Registered: 09-2005 |
jcole, thanks, igot it now .Works great I thought I remembered that Hoffa lived on Robson off of six mile back in the 60's?? Also Lilly Tomlin lived on Florence in Highland Park. Can't remember the previous street she mentioned off of 12th? Might have been Glynn Ct? | ||
Jgavrile Member Username: Jgavrile Post Number: 118 Registered: 09-2005 |
Sir Graves Gastly(Shock Theater) lived in an apartment building at the corner of Farand Park and Woodward in Highland Park. | ||
Eastsidedame Member Username: Eastsidedame Post Number: 239 Registered: 12-2006 |
Lindburgh lived at 1120 W. Forest, but it's gone now.  Wish there was somewhere we could post a running list. | ||
Dianeinaustin Member Username: Dianeinaustin Post Number: 37 Registered: 02-2008 |
What a neat looking house. | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 736 Registered: 06-2005 |
quote: It's on the northwest corner of Atkinson and Third. | ||
Gibran Member Username: Gibran Post Number: 2842 Registered: 02-2007 |
i have always been amazed at the older homes in Detroit...what a heyday eh | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 973 Registered: 10-2003 |
"Sir Graves Gastly(Shock Theater) lived in an apartment building at the corner of Farand Park and Woodward in Highland Park." Lawson Deming didn't host Shock Theater, and he would drive from Medina, Ohio every week to tape Sir Graves. | ||
Whithorn11446 Member Username: Whithorn11446 Post Number: 235 Registered: 03-2007 |
I guess its time for this thread again. It seems like the last one was less then six months ago. Anyway, I will throw in some people excluded from the last time. James R. Hoffa-(Teamsters)16154 Robson Jerome P. Cavanagh-18085 Parkside Thomas Poindexter(Common Council, Judge)16780 Edinborough Sonny Eliot(WWJ)1417 Nicolet Pl Ray Lane(WJBK)8108 Freda Karl Haas(WJR)-18901 Pennington Judd Arnett(Detroit Free Press) 14456 Grandmont Alex Karras(Lions) 16174 Prest Frank Tanana(as child)-7751 Dayton Dave DeBusschere(Piston)-3827 Courville Jack Adams(Red Wings)-17575 Warrington Robert Calihan(U of D coach, AD)- 17400 Fairfield Larry Chene(Pro wrestler)- 12764 Promenade Billy Golembiewski(Pro bowler)11716 Maiden Alex Delvecchio(Red Wings)12352 Indiana Wade McCree(Fed Judge)1324 Nicolet Charles Agree(Architect)660 Whitmore Dr. Donald Golden(DOC founder)19285 Canterbury Louis Tourteau(Buddy's, Shield's, Loui's)13432 Eureka Jimmy Butsicaris(Lindell A.C.) 18731 Chandler Park Drive Carl Rosenfeld(founder Carl's Chop House)17370 Pontchartain Blvd. Ed Davis(Auto Dealer) 2020 Chicago Blvd. Tom Borman (Farmer Jack Co-founder)1580 Lincolnshire Les Gruber (London Chop House owner) 8120 E. Jefferson Roman Gribbs (Former Sheriff&Mayor)16515 Edinborough Richard Austin(MI Sec of State)3374 Oakman Blvd. The addresses are mostly from the years 1963-1965 | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1450 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jgavrile, you're welcome. Glad it worked for you. | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 730 Registered: 10-2003 |
I lived in the house where the Michigan murderer lived and killed at least one girl in the basement back in the late 60s. But that was in Ypsilanti not Detroit. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 5446 Registered: 10-2003 |
Helen Thomas grew up on Heidelberg...have to get the address again on my grandpa's old Kodak film tapes. The house was destroyed years ago. Hans Gehrke (architect) 604 E. Grand Boulevard Leonard Willeke (architect) 39 Moss Avenue, Highland Park Richard Marr (architect) 1186 Edison Marcus Burrowes (architect) 721 Atkinson Frank Eurich (architect) 238 Moss, Highland Park Robert O. Derrick (architect) 64 Ridge Road (GP) Charles Kotting (architect) 216 Hendrie Clarence Day (architect) 2235 Edison HJ Maxwell Grylls (architect) 1005 Parker Ave William Kapp (architect) 2498 Lothrop (GP) John Donaldson (architect) 251 Arden Park Walter Meier (architect) 3440 Seminole J. Ivan Dise (architect) 1559 Atkinson Emory Ford- 67 Kirby Alvan Macauley (Packard Motor Car) 59 Hendrie John Newberry 483 Jefferson Truman Newberry 481 Jefferson Henry B. Joy 501 Jefferson Luther Trowbridge 609 Jefferson Dexter Ferry 1040 Woodward Frederick Paige 1115 Woodward Harry Jewett 1055 Jefferson | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 5447 Registered: 10-2003 |
I listed a great deal of architects above. Many on here will recognize their names and immediately associate them with various buildings in the area. Ironically, most of the listed architects did not live in gigantic mansions. Most lived in normal middle-class homes. |
